From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 03:04:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 03:04:08 -0400 Received: from albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.120]:19613 "EHLO albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 03:04:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDF655C.8070307@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 03:03:56 -0400 From: "John O'Donnell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Drokin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reiserfs has killed my root FS!?! In-Reply-To: <20020512225623.GG1020@louise.pinerecords.com> <3CDF1F1B.1090302@mindspring.com> <20020513104615.A10664@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:04:11PM -0400, John O'Donnell wrote: > > >>I'm sorry. This IS 2.4.18 - I havent played with 2.5 yet - but thanks >>for the warning. >>This is a Seagate ST39102LW hooked into an Adaptec 29160. > > > Ok, if you want your fs back, correct way is to download latest preversion of > reiserfsprogs (reiserfsprogs-3.x.1c-pre4 for now) from namesys.com ftp site, > build it somewhere, boot off rescue media of some kind, and then run > reiserfsck with --rebuild-tree argument (and a path to your partition of > course). If you cannot build any binaries anywhere, I can send you a binary > of reiserfsck. > You problem is that pointer to data block got corrupted and now points > outside of the partition. > (notw, if you have some reiserfsck version on your rescue media, it won't > help you, because this exact problem got fixed only recently) > > Bye, > Oleg > Well....... I sorta DISCOVERED THIS! But, I bow to Oleg anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great utilities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before seeing this I installed Slack 8.0 on another small partition, downloaded 2.4.18, latest reiser tools from slack's site. I had to so a --rebuild-sb thought first. Then the rebuild tree..... Now I am back in Linux heaven! It just booted. Oh man these errors freaked me the hell out. I am still turned off by seeing the $25/per question for support on namesys.com after clicking on "Support" with NO mention of the mailing list. I found the mailing list LATER and some useful tips. My brain kernel paniced! Root FS backup commences...... :-) Thank you Oleg! Johnny O -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== +==============================+====================================+ | John O'Donnell | | | (Sr. Systems Engineer, | http://johnnyo.home.mindspring.com | | Net Admin, Webmaster, etc.) | E-Mail: johnnyo@mindspring.com | +==============================+====================================+